Elaine Chew

Operations Researcher • Pianist
Professor and Founder | Digital Music Theranostics Laboratory
King’s College London Department of Engineering and School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (Research Departments of Cardiovascular Imaging and Biomedical Computing)
Invited Researcher, Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique (IRCAM), Paris, France

2026 European Heart Rhythm Association Best Innovation in AI and Digital Medicine in Clinical EP : Music as a conceptual and digital theranostic tool for cardiac electrophysiology
2026 European Research Council Public Engagement with Research Award : awarded ‘for a boundary-spanning and truly interdisciplinary approach reaching millions of ears and hearts’ ■■■ More awards

2023 Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year 2023 Award (Art & Science Category) : Breaking the Wall to Musical Medicine [ interview ] ■■■ See recent publications
2024 BBC World Service : Unexpected Elements : Unexpected Oscar for Best Original Music ■■■ See heartbeat music

Coming in 2027 : Isaac Newton Institute Programme on Mathematics, Computation, and Complexity in Music

MIT Alumni Association : Slice of MIT : Music to Make the Heart Sing
BBC One Morning Live : Music Heart Health with Ben Gernon (Contact EC for private link if you cannot view BBC iPlayer)
Los Angeles Philharmonic : Inside the Music : See What You Hear

Music science : Music information research, computational structure analysis, performance science, perception and cognition, music representation
Mathematical science : Data science, visualisation, sonification, mathematical modelling, optimisation, probability & statistics, signal processing
Cardiovascular science : Neurocardiology, autonomic response, time/frequency domain signal analysis, ECG sonification